Michigan Live has this story about the lawsuit over the Michigan Republican presidential primary ballot. The law gives the Secretary of State the power to decide which candidates have been mentioned in enough media to be on the ballot automatically. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson excluded Rocky De La Fuente, and a voter who wants to vote for De La Fuente then sued.
This article says there is some reason to believe the Democratic National Committee will revise its rules for getting into the Democratic debates. The current rules prevent Michael Bloomberg from qualifying, because they require 300,000 donors and Bloomberg isn’t accepting donations.
The Independent Party of Oregon is ballot-qualified, but no longer has enough registrants to qualify for a government-administered primary. It will administer its own primary in 2020, using the internet. See this story.
On November 18, both sides filed their final briefs in Pierce v Stapleton, 6:18cv-63. This is the case that challenges Montana’s ban on out-of-state circulators for initiative petitions, and the ban on paying signatures on a per-signature basis. A decision is likely fairly soon.
On November 27, a U.S. District Court in New Hampshire sent questions to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Casey v New Hampshire Secretary of State, 1:19cv-149. The case concerns a 2018 law that is not clear. It relates to who can register to vote in New Hampshire. It can be interpreted to mean that college students attending college in New Hampshire cannot register and vote in New Hampshire, if they have drivers licenses and car registrations in other states. Here is the rather long and complicated referral to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
